# Coming models
> Models a lab has announced, teased or shown in a closed preview that nobody can download or call yet, with the day each was announced and when it's expected. We list a model when it comes out, so this is what we're watching. 13 waiting.
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- Updated: 2026-10-23
Models a lab has announced, teased or shown in a closed preview that nobody can download or call yet, with the day each was announced and when it's expected. We list a model when it comes out, so this is what we're watching. 13 waiting.
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## Not out yet
| Model | Who | Announced | Expected | Status | Access | What's known | Sources |
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| Kimi K3.1 | Moonshot AI | 2026-10-23 (teaser video on Moonshot's @Kimi_Moonshot X account (cited via pages that describe it)) | 27 October 2026 (a tester on X says before 27 October; Moonshot gave no date) | Teased | unknown | Successor to Kimi K3; the 24-second teaser shows the Kimi Code terminal running 'Model: Kimi K3.1' and generating Three.js 3D scenes. Believed to be the anonymous 'Kibitz' model on Arena; size, licence and date not stated (a leaker, not Moonshot, says it ships before 27 October). | |
| Rho-1 | Reka | 2026-10-05 (Reka blog post 'Rho-1: Collapsing the multimodal stack') | No date given | Closed preview | unknown | 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch that reads and generates text, images and video and outputs robot actions in one network. Research preview only: no public API, download or price; collaborators contact Reka. | |
| Griffin | Tavus | 2026-10-01 (Tavus research post introducing Griffin) | No date given | Closed preview | unknown | Real-time, full-duplex video-to-video 'Human Interaction Model' for face-to-face AI conversation. A smaller Griffin-Lite is a research preview for select trusted testers (request form); Tavus says the full Griffin follows once safety work is done. | |
| Qwen 4 (Max, Plus, Flash) | Alibaba (Qwen) | 2026-09-22 (Apsara Conference keynote and Alibaba Cloud press release) | No date given | Announced | unknown | Next Qwen generation on a new architecture, said to be in training; previewed as Max (flagship), Plus and Flash tiers. No model card, API name, price or benchmarks yet; the Qwen LLM lead said only that it will come 'soon'. | |
| Qwen 4 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | 2026-09-22 (shown in the Qwen 4 lineup at the Apsara Conference) | No date given | Announced | open weights | 27B model presented as the open, locally deployable tier of the Qwen 4 family. The open-weight plan comes from coverage of the keynote; Alibaba's press release does not spell it out, and no weights are published. | |
| Qwen-Image 3.1 | Alibaba (Qwen) | 2026-09-22 (Alibaba Cloud press release at the Apsara Conference) | Later in 2026, Alibaba says | Announced | unknown | Image generation model following Qwen-Image 3.0. Alibaba said it will launch 'later this year' (2026) but gave no date; no specs published. | |
| Grok 4.8 | xAI | 2026-09-13 (Elon Musk posts on X (quoted by third-party pages)) | No date given | Teased | unknown | Musk described a 2.5-trillion-parameter model on a new C++ training stack that would 'finish training this week and start RL', and later called it a noticeable improvement over Grok 4.7. No model ID, price or date from xAI. | |
| Darwin | OpenEvidence | 2026-09-03 (press release introducing the OpenEvidence model family) | No date given | Closed preview | API | OpenEvidence's most capable medical model, in an application-based research preview for institutional partners, research collaborators and accredited academic AI researchers (partner endpoint). Size not disclosed; capabilities are to move into its production models later. | |
| GLM-6.0 | Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | 2026-08-31 (named by founder Tang Jie on the half-year results call) | No date given | Teased | unknown | Next Z.ai base model, framed around 'self-evolution' (the model judging when to stop and correct its own training). Tang Jie said the base model will grow while active parameters are kept in check; no date or licence given. | |
| Sarvam trillion-parameter model (unnamed) | Sarvam AI | 2026-07-30 (roadmap announced at Sarvam's Epoch 2026 conference in Bengaluru) | January 2027 (within six months, Sarvam says) | Announced | unknown | Trillion-plus-parameter foundation model trained from scratch in India, aimed at coding, cybersecurity, simulation and science. Sarvam said it expects the model within six months (by about January 2027); no name or licence yet. | |
| FLUX 3 Dev | Black Forest Labs | 2026-07-23 (Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 launch post (launch plan section)) | No date given | Announced | open weights | Planned open-weight release of the FLUX 3 multimodal backbone for video, audio and image generation and action prediction. The other FLUX 3 parts (Video, Image, Image Klein, Action, Max) have shipped; no date, size or licence for Dev. | |
| Nemotron 4 | NVIDIA | 2026-03-16 (NVIDIA press release launching the Nemotron Coalition (GTC)) | As early as late autumn 2026, The Information reported | Announced | open weights | Family of open models to be built on the Nemotron Coalition's first model, co-developed with Mistral AI. The Information reported the largest model exceeds 1 trillion parameters and could be ready as early as late fall 2026; NVIDIA has not confirmed a date. Announced slightly more than six months ago. | |
| Grok 5 | xAI | 2026-01-06 (xAI Series E funding post ('Grok 5 is currently in training')) | No date given | Announced | unknown | xAI's next flagship, in training on Colossus 2. Musk has given shifting targets (most recently that it comes after Grok 4.8 and 4.9); no xAI date. Announced more than six months ago but still unreleased. | |
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